Day 11: Wednesday 23rd June 2010: Dallas, Texas to Alexandria, Louisiana (Miles to Date: 3047)
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We had planned a surprise for Jack during our visit to Dallas, a visit to the head office of Boy Scouts of America, which is in Irving, a suburb of Dallas. Jack is extremely keen on Scouting and recently got his rank advancement to Life Scout, one rank away from the highest rank of Eagle Scout. He is working his way towards Eagle and completed his project, which he wished to discuss with some of the leaders there, as well as future leadership project. Whilst Karen took Jack off to the Boy Scouts Head Office, Mark and Emily stayed behind at the hotel to watch England play Slovenia in the World Cup. As could have been predicted it was another disappointing performance by England, with a 1-0 score. Why do we bother? Jack had a much better time connecting with the Boy Scout leaders, who made him feel most welcome and treated him with great respect. Another great thing about the Head Office is that it has a wonderful museum, which Jack was given a tour of by an elderly docent..jpg)
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We were all reunited, Jack and Karen in better spirits than the other two members of the party, and set-off to find some lunch. One of trusty companions on our tours of the USA has been our “Road Food” book, which already had few entries for the early part of our tour. Luckily there were a couple of entries for Dallas; we chose Sonny Bryan's Smokehouse. This was a very simple eatery serving great barbecue food, and as recommended by “Road Food” we chose the sliced brisket plate. This turned out to be a fabulous choice, absolutely delicious! The seating arrangement was unusual as we were seated in individual chairs with their own personal tables, somewhat reminiscent of old school chair/desks. It is very unlikely Sonny Bryan's will be getting a Michelin Star any time soon but who cares. Our next leg of the journey takes us down into Louisiana, to the city of Alexandria. We arrive quite late, just in time for dinner. We settled for the Texas Roadhouse, a great steak house restaurant. After a few days of mainly eating badly at bad restaurants this was a most welcome change; good food and good atmosphere. Half the local constabulary were there, which in our minds just proved how good the place was!
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We had planned a surprise for Jack during our visit to Dallas, a visit to the head office of Boy Scouts of America, which is in Irving, a suburb of Dallas. Jack is extremely keen on Scouting and recently got his rank advancement to Life Scout, one rank away from the highest rank of Eagle Scout. He is working his way towards Eagle and completed his project, which he wished to discuss with some of the leaders there, as well as future leadership project. Whilst Karen took Jack off to the Boy Scouts Head Office, Mark and Emily stayed behind at the hotel to watch England play Slovenia in the World Cup. As could have been predicted it was another disappointing performance by England, with a 1-0 score. Why do we bother? Jack had a much better time connecting with the Boy Scout leaders, who made him feel most welcome and treated him with great respect. Another great thing about the Head Office is that it has a wonderful museum, which Jack was given a tour of by an elderly docent..jpg)
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We were all reunited, Jack and Karen in better spirits than the other two members of the party, and set-off to find some lunch. One of trusty companions on our tours of the USA has been our “Road Food” book, which already had few entries for the early part of our tour. Luckily there were a couple of entries for Dallas; we chose Sonny Bryan's Smokehouse. This was a very simple eatery serving great barbecue food, and as recommended by “Road Food” we chose the sliced brisket plate. This turned out to be a fabulous choice, absolutely delicious! The seating arrangement was unusual as we were seated in individual chairs with their own personal tables, somewhat reminiscent of old school chair/desks. It is very unlikely Sonny Bryan's will be getting a Michelin Star any time soon but who cares. Our next leg of the journey takes us down into Louisiana, to the city of Alexandria. We arrive quite late, just in time for dinner. We settled for the Texas Roadhouse, a great steak house restaurant. After a few days of mainly eating badly at bad restaurants this was a most welcome change; good food and good atmosphere. Half the local constabulary were there, which in our minds just proved how good the place was!
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